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Interactive House. Over 1000 Free eLearning Resources. Free eLearning Resources for eLearning Professionals One of the challenges that I had when I begun my eLearning career was to find useful and effective eLearning resources for eLearning course design and development.

Over 1000 Free eLearning Resources

I am fun of Free eLearning Resources and of course Free Educational Technology Tools. At the following list you will find over 1000 free eLearning resources that I highly encourage you to share with professionals interested in the eLearning field! The 5 Best Free Mind Mapping Tools for Teachers. National Geographic Young Explorer (Student Magazine) - May 2010. Visible Thinking. Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine encourage?

Visible Thinking

The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge. It also encourages them to take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties as they reflect on what they are learning. Application: When and Where can it be used? The natural place to use the Connect-Extend-Challenge routine is after students have learned something new. Reading Strategies. The explicit teaching of reading strategies helps students to become increasingly skillful at interpreting, understanding, and analyzing text.

Reading Strategies

As with any new skill, these reading strategies should be taught through a scaffolding method, which includes modeling the strategy, providing students with opportunities for guided practice with the strategy, and then having students independently apply the strategy. Because students have different reading styles, they are not likely to find all reading strategies equally useful. While a particular strategy may reinforce a strength that one student has or may provide the key to overcoming a reading difficulty, the same strategy may prove to be cumbersome or tedious to another student. For this reason, the explicit teaching of reading strategies should also include opportunities for students to reflect on the effectiveness of the strategy. By considering questions such as: How does this strategy help me to understand the text?

Make a Word: AN. 10 cortometrajes que puedes utilizar para enseñar. Ya que los recursos audiovisuales son una buena opción para hacer clases más dinámicas, les presentamos esta increíble lista.

10 cortometrajes que puedes utilizar para enseñar

A través de estos cortos animados los profesores pueden enseñar sobre valores y la convivencia. A los estudiantes les encantan y les recomendamos para que aprovechen al máximo su potencial que los profesores guíen la discusión sobre temas tan importantes y diferentes como el respeto, la envidia, la lealtad y la autoestima. Es para alumnos de todas las edades. 1.

Pajaritos (For the birds). Este corto tiene una duración de tres minutos y plantea un conflicto de intolerancia.Ganó un premio Oscar a mejor cortometraje animado en el año 2000. 2. Dirigido, escrito y animado por Enrico Casarosa. 3. Combina música y animación. 203 expresiones en inglés coloquiales y su traducción al español - El Blog de Idiomas. The Best Short Films. 10 Apps to Make Reading in the Classroom Even More Fun. Just about a year ago, we published a post detailing the 10 best web tools for enhancing the reading experience.

10 Apps to Make Reading in the Classroom Even More Fun

We still love those tools (almost as much as we love books and reading and libraries), and now we’re adding another 10 to take reading for you and your students up yet another level. Together, you’re sure to have a reading bonanza! Photo credit: Tim Pierce, Creative Commons License1. Few things can bring books to life quite like reading aloud. With Bookster, kids can take adults out of the equation and gain role models along the way as they listen to other children narrate their favorite books. 2. A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers. 1- ZimmerTwins It is all about creative storytelling.

A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers

1182 The Real World. Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals. 100+ Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark (Updated for 2012) Copyright and Creative Commons. Julia’s dream is to make a living as a photographer.

Copyright and Creative Commons

In this dream, she takes amazing photos, people buy them, and their purchases fund her future work. But it’s not that simple. Julia wants to publish some of her photos to help spread the word, but she’s concerned because photos are easy to copy. She could lose control and not be able to make a living from her talent. So she does some research and learns that in the U.S., as with other countries, we have laws that give creators of materials like books, images, movies, artwork and music a way to own and protect their creations. Punctuation - Writer's Guide - Brand Standards.

Colon / Semicolon Use a colon after an independent clause to introduce a series or a list, amplification or an illustrative quotation.

Punctuation - Writer's Guide - Brand Standards

A colon indicates that what follows is related to the preceding clause. The materials required for the art class are as follows: sketch pad, pencils and imagination. Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. 1.

Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension

Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to "fix" problems in their understanding as the problems arise. Research shows that instruction, even in the early grades, can help students become better at monitoring their comprehension. Comprehension monitoring instruction teaches students to: Be aware of what they do understandIdentify what they do not understandUse appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension. English Pronunciation Lessons. ESL Teacher Resources, Job Boards, and Worksheets. English Pronunciation: Consonants- The sound of W. Easily confused words 1 - ENGLISH UNIVERSITY Online. LinksMy EUO There are many words in English that can be a bit difficult due to the fact that they either sound the same but that a little change in spelling makes a lot of difference to the meaning, or that they seem international in meaning but their meaning in English might sometimes be a bit shifted, if not completely different.

Easily confused words 1 - ENGLISH UNIVERSITY Online

Let's have a look at some that give the most trouble to students taking international English exams. Advise is a verb that means “to offer opinion or counsel“. One advises others and receives advice. Advice is a noun that refers to the information you receive when someone advises you. He needs your advice. Free online tutorials for learning to use technology and ict in education. Compound Complex Sentences in English watch. Verb Tenses. Linking, transitional , connecting words, connectives & text structure worksheets. Voxopop - a voice based eLearning tool. Listen and Write - Dictation. CBBC Newsround - Home. Super Teacher Worksheets. English Grammar Online - free exercises, explanations, vocabulary, dictionary and teaching materials.

ESL Games and Game Board. The ESL game boards found on this page are in the form of Microsoft Word documents. It may take a few second to open. Just click, print, and photocopy. A great motivating TEFL activity. Word Skills: Review synonyms, antonyms, beginning sounds, ending sounds, middle sounds, and rhymes.

English Grammar Fun Games, Interactive ESL Quizzes. ESL Lesson Plans & Resources for Kids Kiz School provides: Video Tutorials, PPT, Interactive Games & Quizzes, Printable PDF Worksheets & Flashcards, among others. English skills practice. Spelling Contest. Study English with fun, free ESL video quizzes. English exercises - grammar exercises - learn english online. Elllo index. English Banana.com - the Best Free Website for Learning English. With free course books, podcasts, worksheets, games and quizzes for learning English! Vocabulary. Vocabulary Games, English Vocabulary Word Games.

ESL-Kids - Flashcards, Worksheets, Games and Songs. Classroom Management Strategies for teachers and lecturers. Cohort - Dictionary Definition. Learn English.